James72:You know how they made the announcement that the bombs were made from pressure cookers and people speculated that pressure cookers would be made illegal. All those people that ordered pressure cookers online with standard shipping are probably getting them delivered today.

During the discussion, someone posted a link to a pressure cooker on Amazon. I clicked on it to look, now Amazon is sending me suggestions for pressure cookers that I might want to buy and pressure cookers are all over my Amazon page. Oh oh.

So...apparently he was a UMass Dartmouth student, which means UMD's campus is closed, and is being evacuated (sister that lives down the road just drove by there). I have no idea how that works, but this is going to be an interesting commute today.

Darth_Lukecash:awalkingecho: utah dude: <american christian>why is it we allow islam to be so violent?

anyway, i'm off play some battlefield 5 HD in which i'm'a bomb an abortion clinic and extort oil from a couple of middle eastern countries, especially if i can pass the potato level.</american christian>

tenpoundsofcheese:Where are all the farkers who were trying to weave the story that these people were Tea Party members?

Are they busily looking through pictures of Tea Party events to see if they can still make a connection?

since we know exactly zero about thier motives at this point, can you say with certainty they were NOT tea party members or have you already assumed a motive based on the few facts you have abou them so far? And will you be shocked when you are called a bigot later?

CrazyCurt:Again, CNN reported Joker smoked pot! And we all know pot smoking teens ALL become muslim jihadist terrorists. Nixon warned you all! What are you going to do now, Washington and Colorado? You're all going to die!!!! Yeah one hit of that Mary Jane and you become Mohammed Jihad -- say, both are MJ, coincidence!?

/ you KNOW this will be a big deal folks, bigger than my silly alegory

Every time something new, often wrong, and often not even tangentially-related comes out, everybody does that scene from "Airplane" where the reporters all run into and knock over the phone booths. And this is the future of information? I wonder if there's another group of people that you shouldn't tell everything because they just don't know what to do with all the information...

I will say this before I step off my soapbox - the postulating, the hypothesizing by people who just don't have a clue reminds me a lot of [insert your favorite partisan forum here]. But at least here there are wrong people on both sides to tamp down the echo chamber effect. Or is it magnify? There's just so much wrong.

The bullshiat piles higher and higher, but it's fascinating and I can't seem to look away, so carry on.